Word: watchdogging
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...level), and reflect the political leanings of their employers. Their power has grown out of the desire of Congress to compete with the previously overwhelming expertise of the vast bureaucracy of the Executive Branch. Also, legislative issues have grown more complex, and Congress has taken its watchdog function over the Administration more seriously. No Congressman can hope to absorb by himself most of the increasingly technical information demanded by both the expanded work of Congress and a more insistent and sophisticated public...
...that dealt with the street people, university students, hitchhikers, political radicals and occultists found nowadays in large college communities. It runs a free university, a youth ranch, a drop-in hostel, a street drama troupe, the sprightly Radix newspaper, and the unique Spiritual Counterfeits Project, which acts as a watchdog on Oriental and occult movements in the U.S. "Our objective," says S.C.P. Director Brooks Alexander, 41, "is to expose and counter the broad patterns of spiritual deception within our culture...
...churches realize that explicit sexual material has been creeping into network programs for several years. But Soap is regarded as a key test case. The Rev. Everett Parker, media watchdog of the liberal United Church of Christ, calls the program "a deliberate effort to break down any resistance to whatever the industry wants to put into prime time." Says Wall Street Media Analyst Anthony Hoffman: "Soap is a stalking horse. If it is a success, everyone will want...
Justice Department officials rate the city's police force "the most brutal in the nation. A local watchdog organization called the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia (PILCOP), set up two years ago with federal money, has logged more than 400 complaints about brutality so far his year. Reviewing 432 claims over a one-year period, PILCOP found that 54% involved blacks, although they account for just 35% of the city's population. From 1970 through 1974, another PILCOP study revealed, cops shot 236 people, killing 81 of them; half of those were unarmed. In researching a series...
...mixed, perhaps because of the sort of reasoning used by the Times's Michael Ratcliffe: "Suicide, euthanasia, privacy and surveillance: rarely can there have been a broadcast in which so many time bombs of universal interest were ticking away The Independent Broadcasting Authority [Britain's commercial TV watchdog] would have been irresponsible if it had prevented The Case of Yolande McShane from being shown. In the public interest...